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Updated: 6:27 PM CDT Oct 29, 2018

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Voters in other states have complained that machines have changed their votes

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The executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission said Monday that the touchscreen voting terminals at certain early poling sites around the city are safe to use and are not of the same variety that have come under fire in other states.The ExpressVote machines are part of a pilot project and are only being used for early voting, Neil Albrecht said. Traditional ballots will be used in Milwaukee on Election Day. Around the state, about 10 percent of voters will cast their ballot on a touchscreen machine, but they're not the kind that have caused controversy elsewhere, like in Texas and Georgia, where voters have complained that the machines have changed their votes. "The equipment that's used in those other states is not used in Wisconsin," Wisconsin Election Commission spokesman Reid Magney told WISN 12 NEWS on Monday. The machines used in the Badger State aren't connected to the internet and don't tabulate votes. They just mark voters' selections from the touch screen and spit out a paper ballot like a receipt, allowing the voter to double-check the ballot. So far, there have been no reports of anything awry and little reluctance by voters to use the touchscreen machines. Milwaukee election officials said that of the roughly 1,000 voters who have cast early ballots at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee polling site, just one declined to use the touchscreen machine and opted for the traditional pen and paper ballot.

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The executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission said Monday that the touchscreen voting terminals at certain early poling sites around the city are safe to use and are not of the same variety that have come under fire in other states.

The ExpressVote machines are part of a pilot project and are only being used for early voting, Neil Albrecht said. Traditional ballots will be used in Milwaukee on Election Day.

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Around the state, about 10 percent of voters will cast their ballot on a touchscreen machine, but they're not the kind that have caused controversy elsewhere, like in Texas and Georgia, where voters have complained that the machines have changed their votes.

"The equipment that's used in those other states is not used in Wisconsin," Wisconsin Election Commission spokesman Reid Magney told WISN 12 NEWS on Monday.

The machines used in the Badger State aren't connected to the internet and don't tabulate votes. They just mark voters' selections from the touch screen and spit out a paper ballot like a receipt, allowing the voter to double-check the ballot.

So far, there have been no reports of anything awry and little reluctance by voters to use the touchscreen machines. Milwaukee election officials said that of the roughly 1,000 voters who have cast early ballots at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee polling site, just one declined to use the touchscreen machine and opted for the traditional pen and paper ballot.